Maybe your toddler falls apart the moment a routine shifts, or maybe you are an adult in West Bend piecing together why you have always found socializing so draining. Our Autism Evaluations in West Bend, WI serve children, teens, and adults, and they give your questions the careful attention they deserve. Getting started takes no referral.
The starting point for every evaluation is a baseline of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function, after which the assessment is tailored to the concern that brought you through the door. One licensed psychologist stays responsible for the entire process, relies on gold standard tools that include the ADOS-2, and screens throughout for the conditions autism tends to travel with, such as ADHD and anxiety.
Common signs include insisting on the same clothes daily, eating only a handful of accepted foods, hand flapping, and eye contact that comes and goes. Language may have developed late, tiny changes to the routine can spark large reactions, and there is often a powerful draw toward the predictable, with toys lined up carefully rather than used in play.
During the teen years it can look like social burnout and drawing inward, feeling overwhelmed by the sensory chaos of a busy school day, and struggling to interpret the nonverbal cues peers pick up without thinking. Routines grow rigid, organizing schoolwork becomes a daily hurdle, and one or two absorbing interests quietly mark them as different.
Recognition can arrive at any stage of adulthood. Many adults point to years spent masking, a real exhaustion following even good social occasions, and childhood quirks that finally make sense in hindsight. Sensory sensitivities and a strong need for routine are typical, and women and people assigned female at birth are especially likely to have gone unrecognized or misdiagnosed for years.
Things begin with around an hour of interview, held with a parent or caregiver for a child or directly with the adult being evaluated. Your psychologist puts together a full history, from early milestones through current behavior at home, in school, or on the job, and that picture guides the choice of autism specific measures to come.
Your psychologist then selects a battery built for the person's age and presentation. In person testing generally spans 2 to 6 hours over one to two days, with questionnaires provided to parents or teachers so behavior across settings is on the record. Given how often ADHD and executive function differences overlap, screeners for those are included by default.
All of the data, the observations gathered in session, and the questionnaire feedback are woven into one detailed diagnostic report. If any co occurring condition turns up during the evaluation, from anxiety to sensory processing differences, it is documented and addressed, ensuring the report leaves you with a full clinical picture rather than a partial view.
About two to three weeks later you return for the feedback session. Your psychologist reviews the diagnosis in accessible terms and provides individualized recommendations, covering home and school strategies, therapy resources, and accommodation guidance, each geared to the specific next steps this person needs to take.
No, you do not. A referral is never a requirement at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are free to schedule directly, and we will only coordinate with your pediatrician or another provider if that is something you specifically want us to do.
It includes a baseline of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function, autism-specific testing with gold standard tools like the ADOS-2, a clinical interview, caregiver questionnaires, and screening for co occurring conditions, with one psychologist owning the case right through the feedback session.
They can begin as early as 18 to 24 months, though the ideal timing really comes down to the concerns you have noticed. We assess children, teens, and adults, which means there is no point at which seeking answers becomes too late.
It hinges on the individual. Usually the interview opens things and testing carries on over whatever number of sittings suit the person, so we never nail down a fixed session count or a rigid tally of hours.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session focused on individualized recommendations, which can include therapy referrals, school accommodations, and concrete strategies ready to use at home.
Phone us at (414) 387-2100 to talk over your concerns and arrange a first consultation. There is no referral to secure beforehand and no approval to wait on before we can get started.
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